quotes tagged with 'freedom', page 4

Weapons are the tools of power ... In the hands of the free and decent citizen, they should be the tools of liberty ... An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.

For all the free people that still protest.You're welcome. We protect you and you are protected by the best.Your voice is strong and loud,but who will fight for you? No one standing in your crowd.We are your fathers, brothers, and sons,wearing the boots and carrying guns.We are the ones that leave all we own,to make sure your future is carved in stone.We are the ones who fight and die,We might not be able to save the world, Well, at least we try.

When we walked the paths to where we are atand we want no choice other than that.So when you rally your group to complain,take a look in the back of your brain.In order for that flag you love to flywars must be fought and young men must die.We came here to fight for the ones we hold dear.If that's not respected, we would rather stay here.So please stop yelling, put down your signs,and pray for those behind enemy lines.When the conflict is over and all is well,be thankful that we chose to go through hell.

The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny.

Fight and you may die. Run and you'll live, at least a while. And, dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance -- just one chance -- to come back here and tell our enemies, that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!

Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man – in temperament, character, and capacity – and it respects those differences. We are not alike and no law can make us so.

In our desire to have government become our benefactor and sustainer, we have allowed it to become our taskmaster and overlord. As a result, we have become little more than well-fed, well-entertained slaves to the state. Freedom, as envisioned by our forefathers, is gone.

It took about 150 years, starting with a Bill of Rights that reserved to the states and the people all powers not explicitly delegated to the federal government, to produce a Supreme Court willing to rule that growing corn to feed to your own hogs is interstate commerce and can therefore be regulated by Congress.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.